Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandSince the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandIn a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand